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Sometimes, we are our own worst enemies.
I agree Ray. The irony is the man who carries out this little mission is very nice. I love talking to him in the hall or working out at the gym with his wife. His girls are radiant and bubbly. I really like the family – I just can not for the life of me figure out the need to do it that way. I am sure some one thought it was a great motivator, but whooeee – it’s more awkward than anything. Gotta love our humanism. It shines brightly every day.
That is a really important point, mom3. Really good people can do really stupid things – and we need to try to cut them the slack we hope to get when we are the good people doing stupid things.
Old-Timer wrote:Quote:We even have this shameful activity where the ward mission leader comes into Relief Society once a month and asks for a show of hands from people who took family names to the temple during the month. He counts the publicly raised hands, writes down the number and thanks us.
Sometimes, we are our own worst enemies.
😯 We’re three hours (one way) from the Temple, so thankfully have little of that kind of thing.
Just my thoughts: 1) Can you remain connected to this Christian church that feeds your soul even after returning to the LDS ward. My family participates in several Christian churches even though we only “attend” the LDS. (IOW the LDS is our home church)
2) We know very little about what heaven will be like. I look at the vision of the three degrees of glory as an inspired possibility. Some pieces of that depiction are lovely and I hope for … other pieces do not resonate as well with me. Nobody really knows.
3) I believe that our institutional understanding of what heaven will be like has evolved since the day of JS. His vision seems to have a heavy element of kingdom building with one’s wives and children increasing the size of said kingdom. The current church vision seems to be more about the nuclear family unit and togetherness. Polygamy in this modern understanding is permitted in the etenities more as an accommodation for special circumstances (re-marriage) rather than the virtual requirement it was once seen to be.
Just my thoughts.
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